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Creative Home Schooling for Gifted Children

“We home school, in the words of Annemarie Roeper, to educate for life rather than simply to educate for success.”

In the aftermath of the 911 bombings, when Lisa Rivero was finishing writing this book, realization came to her of exactly how profound of a statement this actually was. She says, “I began to understand on a new level. We don’t learn about architecture or read great books or study world countries in order “to home school.” We home school so that we’re free to learn about life in its unpredictable complexity. We home school to ask questions and to seek answers for ourselves, to put ourselves in another’s place, to begin to forge new connections and relationships for a new global community, to do our small part as citizens of the world.”

Says author, David H. Albert, author of “And the Skylark Sings with Me: Adventures in Homeschooling and Community-Based Education, “Giftedness, whether of the intellectual or other varieties, exists on a continuum like most other characteristics.” Read more

2011
09/26
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Homeschool Groups – You Don’t Have to Go it Alone

As a parent who has decided to home school your children, there are times you might wonder whether you made the right decision and if you are being overwhelmed by the demands of teaching your children at home. After all, public and private schools have a cadre of staff, nurses, consultants, lawyers, and others to help carry out the many functions of an educational enterprise. Who will assist you? Where will you turn for help? Homeschool groups provide needed support services that free you to do what you enjoy the most – teaching. You don’t have to go it alone.

Better known as homeschooling associations, these not-for-profit groups have come into vogue in recent years as the number of children being taught at home has more than doubled since 2002. Such associations provide a host of services to parents. Chief among them is advocacy. They represent you before state legislatures and departments of education to insure that your interests are protected and that laws and regulations governing the home school are fair, clear, needed, and not counter productive to homeschooling. They provide testimony before State boards and commissions and legislative committees so that your interests and concerns are given a voice which is heard.

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2011
09/21
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